Zdnet reported today the story of Robert Goldman, the story of a software engineer, who invented a medical device that could save the lives of countless terminally ill cancer patients.

Mr Goldman developed a feeder vessel that can directly deliver chemotherapy treatment to cancer cells. His idea was to create a catheter small enough so you could pass it through the blood vessels and go as close as possible to the tumour to deliver treatment . His research was motivated by efforts to try and save his sister which diagnosed with terminal cancer.  It’s a fantastic story of his stubbornness to try and succeed in an area he knew absolutely nothing about, and with experts that told him it couldn’t be done.

Best of all he then created his company and the device has just been approved by the FDA